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First name origins & meanings:

  1. French: Alder tree
  2. Latin: Spring

First name variations: Vern, Verda, Verne, Verney

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Vernon in Eure, France, named from the Gaulish element ver(n) ‘alder’ + the Gallo-Roman locative suffix -o (genitive -ōnis).
  2. French: habitational name from the same place as in 1 or from any of numerous other places in France with the same name and etymology.

This name appears in the following lists: Flowers and Trees, Nobel Prize Winners